Education

The second annual MCTC-Licking Valley Campus Student Convocation will be held on Thursday, March 28, at 5:30 p.m. at The Prizing House in Cynthiana.
Convocation is a free event that offers an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to interact on an informal basis outside of the classroom.
Attendees will be treated to a free supper, information and entertainment and prize drawings including four Kindles.
While the event is free, tickets are required for entry and may be picked up in the LVC front office.

Harrison County Skills USA chapter competed in the Skills USA Regional Competition in Lexington on March 8 with 22 members participating. Students attending were from Harrison and Bourbon counties. Seven of these students qualified for State Competition to be held in Louisville April 2-5.

Bellarmine University has named Aaron Williams and Jessica Whelan to its dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester. The dean’s list recognizes students who receive a grade point average of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale.
The following local residents were named to the fall dean’s list:
•Cynthiana resident Aaron Williams, a senior who is majoring in political science, and previously attended Harrison County High School; and

The University of Louisville released the names of students who achieved its dean’s list for the Fall 2012 semester.
Included on the list are Harrison County residents: Rachel Marie Ammerman and Amber Lee Campbell
To achieve dean’s list, a student must maintain a 3.5 grade point average.

Augustus Madsen, a sophomore at Harrison County High School, has been accepted to the 2015 class at The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science-a residential high school on the campus of WKU in Bowling Green.
The Gatton Academy selected 70 Kentucky residents this year to attend the program.
Gatton Academy applicants are high school sophomores who will have completed geometry, algebra I and algebra II by the end of their sophomore year.